"I think that you've been a sensible young woman."
Clancy gasped. Her eyes widened with amazement.
"Why, I was sure that you'd blame me——"
"What for?" demanded the judge.
"For running away—hiding—everything," said Clancy.
The judge's voice was grim.
"If you'd voluntarily surrendered yourself to the indignities of arrest, I'd have thought you an idiot."
"But won't the fact that she remained in hiding go against her, Judge Walbrough?" asked Randall.
Walbrough surveyed the younger man frowningly.